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  • Title: Electronic structure of a paramagnetic {MNO}6 complex: MnNO 5,5-tropocoronand.
    Author: Tangen E, Conradie J, Franz K, Friedle S, Telser J, Lippard SJ, Ghosh A.
    Journal: Inorg Chem; 2010 Mar 15; 49(6):2701-5. PubMed ID: 20166686.
    Abstract:
    Using density functional theory (OLYP/STO-TZP) calculations, we have investigated the electronic structure of [Mn(5,5-tropocoronand)(NO)], a rare paramagnetic {MNO}(6) complex. Experimental methods, including magnetic susceptibility measurements and high-field electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, have not provided an unambiguous spin state assignment for this complex. In other respects, however, the compound was fully characterized, including by means of single-crystal X-ray structure determination. The optimized S = 1 OLYP geometry reproduced all key aspects of the trigonal-bipyramidal molecular structure, including a short Mn-N(O) distance (approximately 1.7 A) and an essentially linear MnNO angle. In contrast, the S = 0 and S = 2 optimized structures disagreed with the crystal structure in critical respects. Moreover, three different exchange-correlation functionals (OLYP, B3LYP, and B3LYP*) indicated an S = 1 ground state by a clear margin of energy. An examination of the Kohn-Sham MOs of this state indicated a primarily d(xz)(2)d(yz)(2)d(xy)(1)d(x(2)-z(2))(1) electronic configuration, where the z axis is identified with the nearly linear MnNO axis. The d(y(2)) orbital is formally unoccupied in this state, interacting, as it does, head-on with two tropocoronand nitrogens lying along the y axis, the pseudo-3-fold axis of the trigonal bipyramid. The doubly occupied d(xz) and d(yz) orbitals are in actuality d(pi)(Fe)-pi*(NO)-based pi-bonding molecular orbitals, the alpha and beta "components" of which are significantly offset spatially. This offset results in excess minority spin density on the NO unit. Thus, the OLYP/TZP atomic spin populations are Mn, 2.85; N(O), -0.52; and O, -0.35.
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